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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller (L) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio before addressing the audience

Politics

Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist

Unlike The Defendants, One Of The Prairieland Judges Is Part Of An Organized Cell Of Extremists

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during a House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense hearing to examine the 2027 budget for the Department of Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 12, 2026.

The U.S. Is Still Killing People In Illegal Boat Strikes

Detainees gesture at windows from inside Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center

Prisoners At Private ICE Jail In New Jersey Collectively Refuse Conditions Of Death

<p>Jonathan Ben-Menachem is a PhD student in Sociology at Columbia University, where he researches the politics of criminalization. He has written about similar topics for the Washington Post, Slate, The Appeal, and more.</p>


Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Capital

Prison Abolition Is Pragmatic

prisons